Here’s a picture from the Kaiser Family Foundation from late last year, showing what people want done to improve the US healthcare system:
Plenty of work to do!
“Sleepless in the hospital: Our own default” – ACP Hospitalist
The bill she received in the mail revealed a staggering figure — $9,225 for one infusion of Avastin, a chemotherapy drug. And she would need many more such infusions. Fortunately, the dollar amount is what medical experts call a “charge,” which in normal marketplaces refers to the amount a provider expects for the good or…
My student and colleague, Karen Scherr, recently published an excellent article showing that physicians don’t always describe robotic surgery in an unbiased manner. Here is a nice write up of that work: Author Peter Ubel referred to a study done at four Veterans Affairs medical centers of men making decisions on how best to treat…
“Antibody tests might be deceptively dangerous. Blame the math.” – Washington Post
In a New England Journal of Medicine article from November 18, 2010, Zhang and colleagues map out rates of what are arguably inappropriate prescriptions. For instance this picture shows rates of high risk drugs in Medicare recipients, drugs like Valium (and its cousins) which are known to cause falls and other complications: This picture shows that WHERE…
“Doctor Talk: Technology and Modern Conversation” – The American Journal of Medicine